Hundreds of students rally in support of Sanders
Speakers discussed
loan debt, economy
By Brendan deady
and arthur doran
Collegian Staff

Brennan Tierney, a
sophomore legal studies
major at the University of
Massachusetts, stood atop
a makeshift wooden platform in front of Machmer
Hall and addressed a
crowd of about 300 people
Tuesday evening.
“This is not just about
politics or [Bernie] Sanders
or [Hillary] Clinton, this
is about building united
progressive
movement toward justice and
equality,” Tierney said.
Before the echo of his
voice had trailed off across
the concourse, the crowd
responded with a chorus
of cheers, supportive statements for presidential candidate Bernie Sanders and
a series of criticisms directed toward his opponents.
Tierney provided the
introductory and closing
remarks at a rally supporting Sanders’ presidential campaign, which was

organized by the unofficial student group “UMass
for
Bernie
Sanders.”
The gathering, which
began at 5 p.m., featured
professors and UMass
students who highlighted
Sanders’ policies and distinctions from his competitors that they say make
him the ideal candidate
for a country “wrought
with
i n e q u a l i t i e s. ”
UMass economics professor Gerald Friedman
took the microphone from
Tierney as the rally’s third
speaker and asked the
attendees to consider the
history of the University’s
mascot, the Minuteman.
“Massachusetts
was
where democracy was
born. Common farmers
fought for their freedom
against the greatest empire
in the world and brought
it down,” Friedman said.
“We are not descended
from fearful men and
women but revolutionaries and now it is time
for us to do the same.”
Friedman added that the
average American faces a
crisis just as grave as the
see

A look into the price Mona Eltahawy speaks to
of parking on campus revolution in Middle East
UMass pricier than
most local colleges

ate and graduate students
with cars are allowed to park
on the edges of campus in
green, yellow and purple
By anthony rentsch
lots, as well as in the upper
Collegian Staff
garage. The cost of an annuA proposal to implement
al permit for one of these
nighttime and weekend
lots varies; it’s $248 for the
parking fee at the University
of Massachusetts was put
on hold earlier this year,
but some students remain
unhappy with how much it
costs to park on campus.
A recent column in the
Daily Collegian bemoaned
the price of student parking permits and the rates for
metered or pay-station parking lots.
In relation to comparable
schools in the region, parking at UMass is slightly more
expensive. However, in comparison to the other UMass
campuses, the Amherst campus’ prices are closer to the
middle.
Currently, undergradu-

yellow lots, $305 for the purple lots, $340 for the green
lots and $671 for the upper
garage. Jonathan King,
director of parking services,
said the majority of students
see

Mona
Eltahawy,
an
award-winning EgyptianAmerican journalist, shared
her vision for a sexual revolution in the Middle East
through global feminism
during a speech to students
Monday in the Amherst
Room of the Campus Center.
Eltahawy, who was speaking as a part of the College
of Social and Behavioral
Science’s “Perspectives on
Resistance” speaker series,
recently published a book
called “Headscarves and
Hymens: Why the Middle
East Needs a Sexual
Revolution.” She spoke to
both students and faculty
members, and then hosted

a question and answer session.
In her book, she encouraged Arab and American
women to tackle misogyny in public and private
spheres, which was a central talking point Monday.
She also highlighted that
a sexual revolution must
include Muslim women as
leaders who tackle what she
called the patriarchal trifecta of oppression in the
Middle East.
“The street and the home,
together with the state,
oppress specifically women,
and that is what I call the
trifecta of misogyny,” she
said, referring to conditions
in the Middle East.
The first section of the
trifecta is the state, which
she said was “male dominated” and needs feminists
to challenge sexist policies
and practices conducted by
the government. Eltahawy

said that resisting the government would benefit both
men and women alike.
The second part of
dismantling the trifecta
involves women claiming
public space on the streets,
because the “systematic
sexual assaults of women
in protests” happens regularly in response to Muslim
women speaking out against
sexual discrimination and
violence.
The third and hardest
part to overcome is oppression within the home, where
women must claim ownership over their bodies, she
said.
“The sexual revolution
begins with the declaration
‘I own my body, not the state
… not the church and the
mosque, and not the home,”
she said. By making this
see

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UMACC kicks off fundraising year with charity fair
Festive kickoff event
was held Tuesday
By devinne Zadravec
Collegian Correspondent

The
University
of
Massachusetts
Amherst
Community Campaign, a
longstanding workplace program that allows faculty and
staff to donate to any charitable organization of their
choice, celebrated the start
of another fundraising year
with a kickoff charity fair
Tuesday. Held in the Student
Union ballroom, attendees of
the kickoff event enjoyed free

food, live music and spoke
personally with representatives from more than 30 of the
non-profit organizations who
benefit directly from UMACC
donations.
“This year is a building
year for us, so we’re really
trying to raise awareness of
what the campaign is,” said
Jennifer Page, manager of
UMACC.
Under new leadership as
of this year, UMACC is once
again preparing for an ambitious fundraising campaign,
with a goal of $350,000 to be
raised by the end of January
2016.
Since the campaign’s kick-

off Oct. 20, UMACC has raised
$102,522 to date. Members of
the UMass community can
view the campaign’s progress
on the UMACC webpage, or
by visiting one of the three
progress-tracking signs located across campus.
UMACC’s aim is to make
giving charitable donations
easy. The campaign attempts
to streamline the donation
process so faculty and staff
can ideally donate to any
charity of their choosing efficiently and with confidence,
knowing that their donation
will be directly impacting
their chosen charitable organizations.

This year’s campaign chair
is Dr. Willie Hill, Jr., director of the Fine Arts Center.
While new to UMACC, Hill is
no stranger to philanthropic
endeavors, and heavily attributes his passion for giving to
his own life experiences.
Hill became involved with
UMACC after a stint as cochair of the Faculty and Staff
Campaign, and is looking
forward to revitalizing and
challenging the campaign to
match and potentially surpass
its former successes.
“We’re positioning ourselves at this point to move
that bar up, and to make it
a very, very successful cam-

paign,” Hill said.
Past campaigns have set
a high bar; at its peak success in 2010, UMACC raised
an impressive $466,000 in one
year.
“I think the support now is
in place from the University
administration,” Hill added.
“There are a lot of individuals that are really engaged in
this whole process of what
we’re trying to accomplish,
and I think we’re well positioned to move forward.” The
campaign this year intends to
set a new standard for fundraising, with events like the
kickoff charity fair planned to
not only spread the word and

involve the community, but to
generate excitement about the
work that UMACC supports.
“We’re really trying to revup the campaign,” Hill said.
“I think with new leadership,
with Jennifer Page and with
all the support mechanisms
that are in place now, these are
very realistic goals. Because
people do give, they like to
give, and it makes them feel
really good to be involved.”
The campaign has existed
since the early 1990s, and has
raised a grand total nearing $8
million dollars since its start.
Devinne Zadravec can be reached at
dzadrave@umass.edu.

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Wednesday, October 28, 2015

THE
RU N D OW N
ON THIS DAY...
In 1636, Harvard
College was founded in
Massachusetts under its
original name, Court of
Massachusetts Bay Colony.
It was the first school
of higher education in
America.

AROUND THE
WORLD

UN expert: Iran
open to human
rights talks
NEW YORK — Iran
appears more willing to
discuss human rights issues
since signing the nuclear
deal with world powers
in July, though the country is on track to carry
out a record number of
executions this year, a U.N.
human rights expert said
Tuesday.
Ahmed Shaheed, U.N.
special rapporteur on
human rights in Iran, said
that Iran, previously unwilling to allow U.N. rights
experts into the country,
has stepped up collaboration with him since signing the nuclear agreement
with the six world powers
- the United States, Russia,
Britain, China, France and
Germany.
“They are willing to have
structured discussions with
me outside the country on
issues of mutual interest,”
he said.
dpa

Japan overturns
move to block
expansion of US
base in Okinawa
TOKYO — Japan
invalidated a decision by
Okinawa’s governor to stop
landfill work for a controversial expansion of a
U.S. base, in a move that is
likely to reignite protests by
islanders against the central
government in Tokyo and
the Obama administration.
At the core of the dispute
is the planned move of the
city center-based Marine
Corps Air Station Futenma
to the less populated
Henoko area in the north
of the island. Governor
Takeshi Onaga, who was
elected last year on a platform of opposition to the
relocation plan, earlier this
month revoked approval
-granted by his predecessor
- for the reclamation work to
build a new airstrip.
The wrangling over the
relocation has dragged on
for nearly two decades, and
is one of the few areas of
tension between the governments in Tokyo and
Washington. Successive
Japanese administrations
have struggled to fulfill
alliance expectations while
quelling local anger. The
latest standoff - which could
spur a protracted legal battle - comes amid a territorial
dispute with China over
islands in the East China
Sea about 250 miles from the
main island of Okinawa.
Okinawa is a critical part
of the U.S. military presence in Asia, playing host
to about half the roughly
50,000 U.S. military personnel in Japan, the biggest
deployment of American
forces outside the home
front. While U.S. forces may
offer a welcome deterrent
against China’s increasing
muscle, many Okinawans
complain of noise, crime,
pollution and accidents connected with the bases.
Los Angeles Times
Distributed by MCT Information
Services

PARKING

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type of lot. For on-campus
students at the University
of Maine, a parking permit
for the academic year costs
$50.
The
University
of
Connecticut has the most
similarly priced options to
UMass. Prices of permits
for UConn students range
from roughly $175 for a spot
on the edge of campus to
roughly $510 for a spot in
the garage.
Additionally, metered
spots at the flagship campuses of New England
states are generally less
expensive than or on par
with
UMass.
Parking
meters at Maine cost $0.25
per half hour and $0.50 per
hour, while those at UVM

are $1 per hour. UNH provides metered and pay-station spots at a rate of $1.25
to $1.50 per hour. URI does
not have metered parking
spots.
As was the case with
permits, UConn’s metered
parking prices rivaled those
of UMass. Parking in either
of UConn’s two garages
costs students $2 for the
first two hours and $1 for
each subsequent hour up to
nine hours. The overnight
rate is $1 per hour.
Some of the large universities in neighboring
states also had academic
standing requirements to
obtain a permit.
In order to receive a
parking permit at UConn,

field has “some of the most
cited researchers in the
University.”
Rafael Fissore, head of the
veterinary and animal science department, is “very
proud of the faculty and the
undergraduate and graduate
students” who are contributing to research.
In addition to being classified
under agricultural sciences,
Fissore’s department is categorized within the plant and
animal science field by the
U.S. News & World Report.
UMass’ plant and animal science field is ranked as 131st
worldwide.
Although graduate students
do most of the veterinary
and animal science department’s research – about 55
are conducting research this
semester – roughly 35 undergraduate students also participate in any given semester, often through the honors
program.
Undergraduate students,
Fissore said, are “intimately
involved in research,” something that he said is evident
through their contributions
to different research papers.
For example, one student
wrote up her findings concerning a gene that, when
eliminated from a person’s
DNA, caused the individual
to become sterile.
Fissore said that research
within the veterinary and
animal science department
has three large focuses:
immunology and infectious
diseases, reproductive and
environmental biology and
environmental toxicology.
Because of the three
different categories, the
research that is conducted
is quite diverse. Projects currently underway focus on
the mechanisms that prevent disease, which embryotic cells form which organs,
developing male contraceptives and causes of sterility, which are all factors that
make an individual prone to
breast cancer; and the effects
of insecticide exposure.
Fissore and Autio credit
UMass’ rise as a top research
university to the addition
of new faculty and the construction of better facilities, such as the Integrated
Sciences
Building
and
the soon to come Physical
Sciences building.
“Young faculty are the
engines that drive university
research [and] there’s been
a steady flow of change to
bring in new faculty,” Autio
said. “We could certainly
attribute [our ranking] to
some new spaces that are
allowing people to be more
productive.”
Autio hopes that receiving
such positive feedback will
attract more students to the
highly productive research
departments on campus.

The U.S. News and World
Report recently released its
annual ranking of best global universities, placing the
University of Massachusetts
as 106th on a list of 750 institutions.
Notably, UMass was recognized as a model research
university, ranking 102nd
globally and 53rd regionally,
with agricultural sciences,
arts and humanities, environmental science, chemistry and space science all
ranking within the top 100 in
their fields.
Wesley Autio, director
of the Stockbridge school
of agriculture, said that he
finds the rankings “spectacular” and appreciates that his
department is being recognized for its research. The
agricultural sciences field at
UMass – which includes food
science and veterinary and
animal science – was ranked
as 10th worldwide.
“In Massachusetts, particularly, we’re overshadowed by a couple of the most
important research schools
in the world: Harvard and
MIT,” Autio said. “But there
are students throughout the
University that are doing fantastic work.”
The research being done
within Stockbridge is quite
varied due to the variety of
agricultural activities, Autio
said. Projects include examining the development of
antibiotic resistance, understanding food systems within
the ethnic populations of
cities, developing plants that
are able to consume soil contaminants and understanding how plants respond to
stresses that result from climate change.
Currently, Autio said
that about 35 graduate students and 100 undergraduate students are conducting
research both on campus
and at off-campus student
farms in North Amherst and
Deerfield.
Over the years, Autio said
that Stockbridge has not necessarily made large breakthroughs in research, but
its research has had major
impacts if you consider
the influence over multiple
years.
“We furthered a lot of
understanding,” he said.
“We’ve changed recommendations for farmers and golf
course managers, for landscape managers and all sorts
of different people who are in
agricultural industries.”
It is important to note,
however, Autio said, that
the food science and veterinary and animal science
departments contributed Shelby Ashline can be reached at
to the ranking. Together, sashline@umass.edu and followed
the agricultural science on Twitter @shelby_ashline.

students must also have
completed at least 54 credits. At UNH and UVM,
freshmen are not allowed
to obtain a permit. Websites
for the other schools did
not indicate whether there
were credit requirements
to obtain a parking permit.
UMass does not have any
parking restrictions based
on academic standing.
Compared with the price
of permits on other UMass
campuses, the Amherst
campus is right in the
middle of the pack. Fullyear permits cost $195 at
Dartmouth, $450 at Lowell
and roughly $650 at Boston.
UMass Medical School in
Worcester offers garage
parking at a rate of $8 per

week, for a minimum of
four weeks.

Where the money
goes
According to King, there
are currently 5,858 student
parking permits registered
at UMass, including 4,245
for undergraduates.
He said that total revenue for the department was
$4.37 million, with $2.6 million of that coming from
parking permits. The other
portion comes from temporary permits ($198,000),
charges to departments
($404,000), meter and paystation revenue ($441,000)
and
garage
revenue
($735,000).
In terms of expenses,

King said that $1.6 million
of the $3.8 million of total
expenses is spent on payroll. The other $1.9 million
goes to snow removal, the
campus shuttle, as well
as meter, pay-station and
garage costs, among others.
King also noted that the
department faces roughly
$10.5 million in deferred
lot maintenance, as well
as roughly $4.5 million to
repair the nearly 50-yearold garage.
Money collected from
parking citations, he said,
is deposited with the
Financial Aid office.
Anthony Rentsch can be reached at
arentsch@umass.edu and followed
on Twitter @Anthony_Rentsch.

A new registered student
organization drew a large
crowd Tuesday evening to
consider the conflict between
Israel and Palestine.
University Union, a group
inspired by the Oxford Union
of University of Oxford,
held its first debate on
Tuesday. The debate, titled
“Opposing Views on Israel
and Palestine,” featured
speakers who represented
both sides’ points of view.
U n iv e r s i t y
of
Massachusetts
professor
Joseph Levine and UMass
alumnus and executive director of the U.S. Campaign
to End Israeli Occupation
Yousef Munayyer represented the Palestinian perspec-

SANDERS

tive. UMass professor Jay
Berkovitz and Smith College
professor Justin Cammy also
joined the debate, speaking
from the Israeli perspective.
Daniel Gordon, faculty
adviser of University Union,
introduced the debaters to
the audience. He addressed
the controversial nature of
the Israel and Palestine subject, as well as the need to
have discussions.
Owen Wiggins, president
of University Union, served
as moderator of the debate.
Both sides began with an
opening statement and spent
some time responding to the
other side’s argument. There
was also an opportunity for
the speakers to answer questions relating to the IsraeliPalestinian conflict.
Levine, representing the
Palestinian
perspective,
was first to give an opening
statement. Levine recalled a
question a student had asked

him: “What gives Israel the
right to rule over Palestine?”
Levine had heard religious justification that
entitled the Jewish people
to Israel. He had also heard
secular justification in favor
of the Jewish people that the
Balfour Declaration guarantees the establishment of a
national state for the Jewish
people in Palestine.
Levine argued that by
asking what gave the Israel
state the right to reside on
land that was inhibited by
the indigenous people of
Palestine. He also argued
that sovereignty over a land
belongs to the people on
that land, referring to the
Palestinian people.
“The Zionist enterprise is
a reincarnation of European
imperialism. And it is similar to the treatment of Native
Americans by the American
colonists,” Levine said.
Berkovitz
referenced

historical evidence of the
ancient Romans expelling Jewish people. He also
argued that the Jewish people are simply returning to
their homeland, which the
League of Nations had recognized.
Munayyer, representing
the Palestinian perspective,
claimed that indigenous
Palestinians occupied the
region of Palestine before
the Zionists arrived. He also
compared the Zionist movement to a colonist movement.
The
treatment
of
Palestinians by Israel is comparable to the apartheid era
in South Africa, he argued.
“Jewish people have a
connection to Palestine, but
that does not justify occupation and oppression,”
Munayyer said.
Cammy argued that the
Jewish people have the right
of self-determination.

“I still don’t see how this
could be a debatable issue.
The wealthy have no problem paying for their healthcare but what they do have
a problem with is paying
the tax dollars for public
system,” Friedman said.
He added that a Sanders
led administration would
institute sweeping healthcare reforms, tackle affordable health care education
and stand up to the wealthy
interests whose money
he has refused to accept.
“We could be a more
productive country with
better healthcare and
infrastructure but we have
to demand it. The people
on Wall Street and the
hacks in Washington won’t
give us a thing until we
demand it,” Friedman said.
He suggested the best
recourse for the average
American to stand and

fight is to elect Sanders
as their next president.
“We’re going to burn it
down and stand and fight
just like those Minutemen
did on that bridge. We
will stand and fight and
bring the empire down.”
Friedman raised his
hands in the air as the
crowd before him erupted
and chanted. He handed the microphone off
to Tierney, who introduced Olivia Murphy
as the next speaker.
Murphy, a women, gender, sexuality major, said
that at first it might appear
counterintuitive
for
women to vote for Sanders
when his biggest opponent is a female candidate.
“The truth is despite
Hillary Clinton’s gender,
she is not the best option
for women,” Murphy said.
Murphy argued that
Sanders has the best platform in mind to benefit
women’s healthcare and
economic standing and is
also particularly mindful to
minority populations such
as single mothers of color.
“Even if some of his policies are not solely directed to oppressed women,
many of his general policies still help women.
His promise to raise the
minimum wage to $15
an hour would be a huge
assistance to many single
mothers,” Murphy said.
Murphy said Sanders’
promise to increase funding
for Planned Parenthood,
introduce a policy that
would require employers
to provide a mandatory
12 weeks of paid maternity leave and increase
funding to the Woman,
Infants and Children program proves he has the
interest of women at the
center of his campaign

the operation of a private health care system
that still fails to provide
health care coverage to
millions of Americans.
Friedman, a vocal supporter of Sanders who
recently wrote on the topic
for the Huffington Post, also
framed the issue in terms
of economic efficiency.
“It has been proven time
and time again as an economic theory that singlepayer national healthcare
insurance funded by the
feds is the most efficient
way to provide healthcare
that also saves millions
of lives,” Friedman said.
Friedman
expressed
exasperation that the
wealthiest country in the
world could rank 43rd in
life expectancy, according
to the CIA, and worse in
infant mortality rate than
some third world countries.

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Casey Pease speaks at the UMass for Bernie Sanders rally, held opposite the Student Union on Tuesday.

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self-declaration, a sexual
and social revolution can
begin in the Middle East,
she added.
Eltahawy
explained
that there are different
trifectas of misogyny, and
the United States is not
spared from the patriarchy.
“In America, the trifecta is race, class, gender,” she said. The intersections of race, class and
gender operate to continually oppress marginalized
peoples in the U.S., she
added.
Additionally,
she
warned audience members
to “pay attention to sexual violence” happening
in the U.S., referencing a
survey that found “one in
four women on campuses
across the United States
are sexually assaulted.”
Activism
through

actively on changing political policies and minds.
Cammy addressed the
question by advocating discussion in both sides of the
debate. He referenced the
fact that the debate’s sponsors – Student for Justice
in Palestine and the Student
Alliance for Israel – had
joined together to present
the discussion.
In
his
introduction,
Gordon noted that the debate
was the first event that both
organizations co-sponsored
together.
“These are two student
organizations with completely different perspectives, I assume, putting their
differences aside to have this
debate,” Cammy said.
University Union hopes to
hosted several more debates
during the year.
Danny Cordova can be reached at
dcordova@umass.edu.

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revolutionaries, only the
opponents are not a government but a concentrated group of billionaires
who have commandeered
America’s political system.
“We are faced by a group
of people who are constantly trying to elevate
their wealth and status by
making us their economic
servants,” Friedman said.
Friedman described how
the egregious control over
politicians by the corporations and their lobbyists is
leading to the degradation
of American democracy.
He then turned his focus
to the need for a national
health care system and
suggested that a Sanders
presidency was the way
to establish such a program in the United States.
According to Friedman,
the U.S. wastes trillions of
dollars each year through

LECTURE

“Levine leaves out history. The right of the Jewish
(to have a homeland) is not a
right given by others for pity,
but a natural right,” Cammy
said.
“A Jew in Israel is speaking the same language and
living in the same place as
his great ancestors did,”
Berkovitz said.
“If the Jewish people
came to Palestine with
no people in it, then there
would be no debate about it,”
Levine responded.
The debate concluded
with one audience-submitted question that was posed
to both sides. The question
asked both sides what they
believe the younger generation should do to handle the
conflict.
Levine said Americans
play a crucial role in influencing the conflict.
Munayyer followed up by
encouraging people to work

social media has worked
well for Eltahawy, especially through her Twitter
account, which boasts
roughly 223,000 followers.
Eltahawy
believes
social media is an important outlet for marginalized voices to be amplified,
and gives women visibility
and a platform they might
not have otherwise.
As a result of Eltahawy’s
work since the Arab Spring
in 2011, UMass journalism
professor Shaheen Pasha
views global feminism similarly to Eltahawy. Pasha
explained that women in
the Middle East are highly
educated, but need to continue pushing for an equal
society.
“A sexual revolution
is … about a gender revolution,” Pasha said. “It’s
about allowing women
who are already doing

these amazing things to be
able to do it on a wider
scale and much more visible scale without having
to be worried about criticism or backlash.”
Eltahawy’s book exemplified the need for a sexual revolution, and she
strongly believes in the
movement.
“Muslim and non-Muslims alike have reduced
Muslim women to what’s
on our heads and what’s
in between our legs,”
she said, which continually fuels her fight for
the equality of Muslim
women. She advocated for
the continuation of global feminism, while also
saying that Arab women
would “complete the revolution.”
Serena McMahon can be reached at
serenamcmaho@umass.edu.

“Carry these conversations with you to your
dorm rooms, to counters when you’re buying
coffee. Think critically and stay involved”
Brennan Tierney, sophomore legal studies major
She added that he
is also mindful of the
LGBTQ
community.
“Sanders
has
been
there since the 1980s and
is pushing legislation that
would protect discrimination in the workplace,
housing and home for our
most marginalized populations,” Murphy said.
Earlier in the evening, the event featured
several other speakers.
Casey Pease, a freshman
majoring in political science, was the event’s first
speaker. Pease discussed
student debt, an issue of
great importance to the
Sanders campaign.
Citing the $1.2 trillion
of student debt owed to
the U.S., Pease asserted
that the current system is
“not sustainable and not
acceptable.”
“It’s a system that has
us set up to fail, and it’s
time for us to raise our
voice,” he said.
Pease elaborated on
four policies that Sanders
plans to implement in
order to address student
debt: making all public
universities tuition-free,
stopping the federal government from profiting
off of student loans, cutting the interest rate of
loans and providing needbased aid and work-study
programs so that students
may graduate debt-free.
Pease called for action
on the part of citizens,
proclaiming, “These are
not radical ideas. They’re
necessary. The only way
things will change in

this country is if we get
involved, raise our voice,
register to vote. Then, we
can make positive change
in this country.”
Ferd Wulkan, organizing director of the Public
Higher Education Network
of Massachusetts, also
spoke. He focused on climate change and income
inequality,
discussing
Sanders’ consistent record
on issues of sustainability.
Mansur Gidfar, director of communications
for Represent.us, what he
has called a “non-partisan
anti-corruption organization,” spoke after Murphy
and explained the dangers
of big money in politics,
citing the statistically
nonexistent effect that the
average American’s preferences have on public
policy.
For closing remarks
Tierney discussed the
“crisis of mass incarceration of minority populations” and the need for
America to be the leading
force in the transition to
renewable energy. He concluded by urging attendees to not let the discussion end with the rally.
“Carry these conversations with you to your
dorm rooms, to counters
when you’re buying coffee.
Think critically and stay
involved,” Tierney said.
Brendan Deady can be reached at
bdeady@umass.edu and followed on
Twitter @bdeady26. Arthur Doran can
be reached at arthurdoran@umass.
edu.

Opinion Editorial
THE MASSACHUSETTS DAILY COLLEGIAN

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Editorial@DailyCollegiancom

“I can’t write five words but that I change seven.”-Dorothy Parker

John Kasich emerges
as the adult in a
childish GOP field
America recently
tuned in to watch
the first Democratic

Robert Malinn
presidential debate,
and it saw five contenders
sharing
similar platforms
in a conversational
manner. Granted,
at times conversation became contentious, but the night
felt much more like
a roundtable discussion from “Meet
the Press” than it
did a political
debate.
On
the
right
side
of the isle,
GOP contenders continue
to
brutally
hack away at
each
other,
employing a divideand-conquer strategy by using bluntly placed wedge
issues and personal attacks. Their
“debate” – which
was
overcrowded and filled with
lively dramatic performances and cutthroat verbal jousts
– has been nothing
more than a political bloodbath. The
nightmarish process has implored
many of us watching to ask whether
civility has gone
the way of the typewriter,
landline
phones or reasonably-priced political campaigns.
The Democrats hold
the advantage of
appearing unified
and civil, at least
for now.
A centrist skeptic, I went about
reviewing the policy backgrounds of
many of the candidates from both
sides of the isle. I
watched a variety
of speeches, both
stump and on stage,
as well as a mishmash of interviews.
Through this process, I kept finding
myself coming back
to Ohio Governor
John Kasich and
reviewing his various stances.
Having always
assumed he was
an establishment
Republican, I was
shocked to find his
ideology to be filled
with hidden pockets of progressivism, and his career
defined by com-

promise. With no
scandals, a lifetime
of public and private sector experience, as well as a
tendency to unify
his party and break
up on-stage fights,
the candidate who
many pundits are
calling “too nice” to
become president is
someone to watch
in the GOP playing
field in the coming
months. A deeply
religious man, it
came as a shock to

viduals in his home
state while serving his first term
as governor, indirectly supporting
Barack
Obama’s
landmark healthcare bill in doing so.
Although Ohio is a
swing state, such a
move was a risk for
a first-term executive in the Midwest.
Clearly, he didn’t
have politics in
mind.
“When I get to the
Pearly Gates, I’m

that’s the end of it.
I don’t want to dwell
on it.”
While he remains
a staunch supporter
of charter schools,
he
stands
with
Obama on Common
Core. He went so far
as to passionately
call out members of
his own party for
not supporting the
improved standards
of public education throughout the
country, suggesting that his GOP
collea gues
are
more
driven by
politics
than substance. His
political
weight and
bipartisan
presence
on such an issue
will unquestionably
help to close many
of the ideological
gaps surrounding
education.
The salt of the
earth bipartisan,
who often pulls
the plug on the
teleprompter, has
been polling middle of the pack in
Iowa but has made
noticeable strides
to the top tier in
New
Hampshire.
Kasich, who often
serves as the unofficial
moderator
during debates will
undoubtedly shine
brighter when his
policy record kicks
blind
showmanship off the stage.
So often Americans
ignore the healthier option when it
comes to voting.
Yes, people like
Donald Trump and
Bernie
Sanders
draw large crowds
and garner hope for
their respective followers. Certainly.
Hillary Clinton and
Jeb Bush remain
household names,
and of course Carly
Fiorina and Ben
Carson look good as
outsiders. However,
its time to focus on
the moderate, the
candidate who puts
honesty over pending polls, integrity
over belligerence,
and one who knows
the president leads
a nation, not a
party.

“Having always assumed he was an
establishment Republican, I was shocked
to find [Kasich’s] ideology to be filled
with hidden pockets of progressivism
his career defined by compromise.”
many that he stands
as perhaps the most
tolerant candidate
on stage regarding the Supreme
Court’s
decision
surrounding
gay
marriage. During
the first Republican
debate, moderator
Meghan Kelly posed
the question of how
the Ohio Governor
would react if one
of his daughters
came out as gay.
Kasich, in one
of the more human
moments of this
entire election season, responded, “I
just went to the
wedding of a friend
of mine who happens to be gay.
Because somebody
doesn’t think the
way I do doesn’t
mean that I can’t
care about them or I
can’t love them. So,
if one of my daughters happened to
be that, of course
I would love them,
and I would accept
them.” It was an
unscripted determination which ended
with Kasich becoming emotional with
the words.
“God gives me
unconditional
love,” he said. “I’m
going to give it to
my family and my
friends and the
people around me.”
The crowd broke
into
thunderous
applauds.
Though a longtime congressman,
he
has
avoided
bending to the will
of his party. He
expanded Medicaid
for low-income indi-

going to have an
answer for what
I’ve done for the
poor,” said Kasich
in a fiery tone in
response to a critical reporter. This
move has created
a lot of contention
between him and
the GOP establishment.
The Ohio governor also takes a
lenient stance on
immigration, stating; “I would prefer for them to be
legalized once we
find out who they
are because they
can – I think they
contribute a lot to
America,” which
is
a pragmatic
and sincere way to
wedge himself from
the far right. An
understanding comfort after Trump’s
hateful
“rapists”
and
“criminals”
commentary surrounding America’s
undocumented
newcomers, Kasich
instead describes
those making a new
life for themselves
in another light.
“They’re hard workers, they’re Godfearing,
they’re
family-oriented,”
he said in an interview with CNN’s
Dana Bash. His
tone often suggests
a lack of patience
for those spewing
bigotry and a commitment
toward
putting an end to
the constitutional
cherry picking surrounding the matter; “Let these peo- Robert Malinn is a Collegian
ple who are born columnist and can be reached
here be citizens and at rmalinn@umass.edu.

Scooting to a bad time
I have been a student here at the pus. Usually once a day I witness someone
University of Massachusetts for almost start with a longboard at the top of the
two months now, and I can say with a high hill outside of Whitmore and rumble all
the way through to Southwest, picking up
John Zawawi
speed with the ferocity of a Japanese bullet train and a take-no-prisoners mentality
degree of certainty that the most terrify- not unlike that of a 13-year-old boy playing
ing thing about college life isn’t midterms, Call of Duty. So clearly, the only way to put
lectures with the capacity size of a pas- an end to the chaos here is to ban anything
senger jet, or even Sam the Minuteman’s
with wheels from touching asphalt. We
beady Golem eyes. Rather, the one thing
must stop the terrorization of pedestrians
that I fear on a consistent basis is the varion campus by any means necessary.
ous cyclists scooting around campus.
Clearly, I make this proposal in jest. There
If you’ve never walked through the middle
really is no point in banning cyclists from
of UMass, you might think this fear is
the streets of campus, and besides, I’ve
misplaced. Surely, there must be no reaincreased my parkour skills by jumping
son to fear innocent cyclists just trying to
away from
get to class
various
and
save
speedsters.
the
enviBut maybe
ronment?
it might be
But my felworth it to
low pedesconsider
trians can
painting
attest that
bike lanes
there is just
on the roads
cause
for
in campus.
this appreDesignated
hension.
lanes that
Maybe it’s
separate
the fact that
those
on
bicycles
and
other
wheel-based
they sneak up behind you, silently, until
it is their righteous time to pass, when apparatuses would make for a more conthey suddenly make a full metamorphosis venient experience for both cyclists and
into Lance Armstrong on the 21st stage pedestrians alike, and would also greatly
of the Tour de France, and no mortal reduce the probability of the Haigis Mall
man will stand in their way of a yellow looking like the streets of Pamplona durjacket. Every time I think I’ve seen every ing the Running of the Bulls. Bike lanes
possible maneuver from bicyclists, some- are a low cost solution to this problem.
one surprises me with a new method, Honestly, even a couple cones with arrows
whether it be the commuter who decided would probably do the trick. Whether or
to use passersby as slalom obstacles, or not people would actually stay within the
the BMX aficionado who thought that the confines of the lane is another question in
perfect place to master the elusive handle itself, but the important is that we should
bar spin was underneath the bridge in have a protocol in place to allow for stuSouthwest Residential Area during peak dent traffic to flow smoothly and without
dinner hours.
fear.
I haven’t even begun to discuss my neardeath experiences with the longboarders, John Zawawiis a Collegian columnist and can be reached at
pennyboarders and hoverboarders of cam- jzawawi@umass.edu.

“Designated lanes that separate those on
bicycles and other wheel-based apparatuses
would make for a more convenient
experience for both cyclists and pedestrians
alike, and would also greatly reduce the
probability of the Haigis Mall looking like
the streets of Pamplona during the Running
of the Bulls.”

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FILM MUSIC

The most calming, helpful film scores for schoolwork
Scores that will help
ro focus and study
By Jessica chaiken
Collegian Correspondent
It’s 11 p.m., and you just
realized that you have a
six page paper due tomorrow. What do you do? Well
of course, you have to write
the paper if you want to pass
the class in question, but you
also need to focus. So you
might put on your favorite
playlist, open a blank document, and hope for the best.
Music can either hinder
or help a student’s ability to
do work, depending on the
person. But while music can
be a useful tactic, music with
lyrics may complicate things.
Research from the University
of Dayton found that, in general, students performed better on a test if Mozart was
playing in the background
than if there was no background music at all.
So music can be either a
positive or a negative influence in a student’s working
process. But music without
lyrics could be even more
beneficial than music with
them.
But then there are the
students who do not want
to listen to composers such
as Beethoven or Mozart, so
once again the question arises: what music should one
listen to when they do their
homework?
Besides the classics, there
are many very talented composers from this century who
have produced some amazingly profound pieces of art.
Many of these composers
have showcased their talents primarily through film
scores.

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Hans Zimmer’s score to the 2010 thriller ‘Inception’ is an intense work, but can inspire and motivate in times of stress.
As most people who
need instrumental tones to
do work listen to classical
music, many forget about
film scores. In almost all
movies, there is a film score
of some sort to accompany
the storyline. Depending
on the genre and composer,
each film score presents its
own unique tone and style.
So with all of the films that
have been made to date, there
are an incalculable amount
of different scores to choose
from.
Though this may not
always be the case, but some
of the most well-regarded

and well-reviewed films of
recent times yield some of
the best musical scores. But
depending on your mood,
your taste and your level of
focus, certain film scores
may be more suitable than
others.
One of the more wellknown film composers of
our time is Hans Zimmer,
who has composed music for
all genres of film. He is well
known for his work on “The
Lion King,” the “Pirates of
the Caribbean,” series and
“The Dark Knight” Batman
trilogy, among many others. Zimmer’s scores, though

they vary, are typically more
dramatic, intense and bellicose.
A great score of Zimmer’s
to study or do homework
to is his work for the 2010
Christopher Nolan movie,
“Inception.” If you are really looking to buckle down
and focus on your work, this
album is an incredibly powerful tool to help you do so.
The song “Time” – a
centerpiece of the film – in
particular is one that may
compel the listener to think
harder, work faster and get
the job done. The rest of the
“Inception” score is equally

showcases its talent as a
well-rounded group. The
one unfortunate detail about
the “Her” film score is that
it has never been officially
released, so it is unavailable
for purchase or streaming.
But, lo and behold, the
album can be streamed
from YouTube. The tracks
“Photograph” and “Song On
the Beach” are two of the
calmest songs from the score.
Their soft, piano-driven melodies are relaxing and are
helpful in remaining focused.
Another less intense, but
more whimsical film score
to listen to is from the 2009
Pixar movie “Up.” Composed
by Michael Giacchino, the
score to “Up” yields cheery
and harmonious pieces
through its orchestra-led
sound. Giacchino has composed the music for dozens
of films, a few of which
are other Pixar films such
as “The Incredibles” and
“Ratatouille.”
One piece on the “Up”
score in particular that is
both artfully produced and
apt for maintaining concentration is “Married Life.”
This particular piece merges
more orchestral music with a
few well-placed piano solos.
In the scheme of things,
whatever you choose to listen to while doing homework – as long as you like it
and it is not too distracting
– will likely help you focus.
But film scores should not
be forgotten in this musicselection process.
So give a couple of them a
listen. You never know, Hans
Zimmer could inspire you to
write your own masterpiece.

inspiring, although a few of
the songs can shift to more
forceful sounds, so those who
are looking for a quieter listening experience may want
to steer clear.
A more subdued and
nuanced film score can be
found from the 2013 Spike
Jonze movie, “Her.” This
score – composed mostly by
Canadian indie rock band
Arcade Fire – is much less
intense and lighter, made up
of light piano melodies and
the occasional orchestra.
The fact that Arcade Fire
was able to compose such Jessica Chaiken can be reached at
calming and melodic tunes jchaiken@umass.edu.

ALBUM REVIEW

Neon Indian’s third record is a wild, fully immersive blast
Alan Palomo is at
his most extroverted
By Jackson Maxwell
Collegian Staff

Though I have heard many
records that change character
quite a bit depending on the
circumstances under which
one which listens to them, I
don’t know if I’ve ever quite
heard such an extreme example of that trait as this record.
There is a very good reason, other than paying tribute
to his other project – the more
dance-infused Vega – that
Alan Palomo chose to name
his third Neon Indian record
“VEGA INTL. Night School.”
This is an album that completely comes to life at night;
its disco rhythms, wild synthesizer flashes and playful
lyrical winks blurring into a
senses-numbing, delightful
whole.
During the day though, the
album’s messy, occasionally
counter-productive production, lack of overt pop hooks
and length are without their
disguises. But Neon Indian’s
music has never been without
its glitches, and like it did on
2009’s chill-wave masterpiece
“Psychic Chasms” and 2011’s
seriously underrated “Era
Extaña,” these weaker points

are often as charming as they
are distracting.
One thing about “VEGA
INTL. Night School,” released
Oct. 16, that cannot be denied
is that it is Palomo’s most
extroverted record to date.
Buried in mesmerizing, but
often obscuring, reverb on his
first two Neon Indian records,
Palomo’s voice bursts out
from under the covers on this
record.
He can go from the ringleader to the proverbial, angel
or
devil-on-your-shoulder
seamlessly, and sometimes
within the space of a single
song.
On the beguiling lead single, “Annie,” Palomo blurs
the line between the song’s
elusive namesake and his
own frustrations in pursuing
her through a giant, nameless city. Though he’s singing
“answering machine” repeatedly in the chorus, the listener
can practically hear Palomo
forming the name “Annie” on
his lips, before talking instead
about his inability to reach
her, or find peace until he can.
Through the warped, angular funk of “Street Level,”
Palomo cuts a straight path,
exclaiming “we’re just trying to survive the night.” It’s
almost as if he is reacting
to the gleeful instrumental

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‘VEGA INTL. Night School’ overcomes its inconsistent production through its deliriously fun atmosphere.
debauchery taking place all
around him, with squelching beats and unpredictable
melodic outbursts constantly
battling for center stage.
“The Glitzy Hive” exists
in another time, merging the
cocky genius of Prince’s earliest mega-hits with the hedonism of late ‘70s to early ‘80s
disco. It’s a song that’s fun,
optimistic and smart enough
to see through its own mag-

netism, but at the same time
is not quite ready to acknowledge that there might be consequences to its actions.
On “Slumlord,” its immediate sequel “Slumlord’s
Re-Lease” and the bass-heavy
“Techno Clique,” the night/
day difference in the experience of “VEGA INTL. Night
School” is at its most profound. During the day, this
trio of songs sounds sluggish,

are more dazzling at night
than they are a bit repetitive,
as they can feel during sunlight hours.
But, Palomo saves the
album’s
most
unifying
moment for last. “News from
the Sun (live bootleg),” is triumphant regardless of the
time of day. Taking the Prince
vibes that dot “VEGA INTL.”
to a scarcely fathomable
extreme, Palomo unleashes a
beauty of grandiose pop worthy of Prince’s mid ‘80s heyday. The cheering crowd of
thousands the listener hears
toward the end of the song
doesn’t seem real, given Neon
Indian’s level (or lack thereof,)
of major commercial success
to date.
But as Palomo leads the
song, and the album, around
for one last victory lap with
these real or imagined thousands at his back, it doesn’t
really matter. The atmosphere of “VEGA INTL. Night
School” may often be superficial, but the skill in its construction is anything but.
If you’re not pre-occupied
with scrutinizing its lessflattering details, you will
have a difficult time finding
an album that’s more liberating than this one.

taking the album’s wild but
focused atmosphere and tossing it away temporarily. But,
when listening to the album
at night, this segment of the
album feels cathartic, as if the
previous 30 minutes or so was
merely a build-up for this crucial mid-album release.
Similarly, the slow-motion
bass lines and glacial tempos
of following track, the six-and- Jackson Maxwell can be reached at
a-half minute “Baby’s Eyes,” jlmaxwell@umass.edu.

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Where is Waldo? No really, I haven’t seen a
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pressure is on UConn.
If we win, we look like
heroes.”
The Minutewomen benefit from having a former
member of the Huskies
on their coaching staff.
Assistant coach Sarah
Mansfield graduated from
UConn in 2014 and according to Tagliente has assisted the Minutewomen with
insight on how the Huskies
play. But because UMass
frequently plays UConn,
the Minutewomen have
already had a lot of exposure to Wednesday’s opponents.
“I don’t think they
changed a lot since Sarah
has left the program …
Sarah really kind of justifies what we are already
thinking since we are
quite familiar with them,”

Tagliente said.
Tagliente
recognizes
that the victory would do
a lot for the confidence of
the team, but considers
Friday’s contest against
Davidson as the one that
really matters.
“Davidson
is
more
important, we are not playing to not play people per
say, but UConn is not that
important of a game that
we press our team to the
max. We need to think longer term and what’s in our
best interest,” Tagliente
said.
“We usually sub liberally, we’ll continue to sub
pretty deep in to our bench
on Wednesday.”
Matthew Zackman can be reached at
mzackman@umass.edu.

BURKE

continued from page 8

“(Megan) does so much for our team that
no one player is going to replace all of her
production on defense and offense.”
Ed Matz,
UMass coach
Although the Minutewomen
have seen success lately
with the play of its offense
ever since Bruno came back,
it proves that the unit needs
to be at full strength in order
to excel.
Matz doesn’t think just
one player on the roster
could fill in the void of its top
scorer. Instead, he’s depending on the entire team to
work together in order to
keep an offensive rhythm
to win the next couple of
games.
“(Megan) does so much
for our team that no one
player is going to replace all

of her production on defense
and on offense,” he said. “I
look at two or three players
on our bench that will get
increased playing time, and
[we’ll] maybe run a little longer with our starters.”
“It’s just a matter of
doing things as we’ve done
all year long, doing things
as a team,” he added. “It’s a
matter of all us stepping up
in these last two games, and
getting a little better. That’s
what we’re hoping for.”
Tom Mulherin can be reached at
tmulheri@umass.edu.

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FIELD HOCKEY

Minutewomen to
face Connecticut

The glue guy

UConn ranked
No. 2 in country
By Matthew zackMan
Collegian Staff

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Ryan Badger skates up the ice in UMass’ 4-0 scrimmage victory against Dalhousie Oct. 3. Badger has appeared in all four games this season.

There’s a long list of
players and coaches who
deserve recognition for
the Massachusetts hockey
team’s hot start to the 2015
season.
High-flying
scorers
like Dennis Kravchenko
and Austin Plevy are certainly near the top of that
list. Freshmen defensemen Ivan Chukarov and
William Lagesson have
also made an immediate
impact, while coach John
Micheletto and his staff
have put together winning
combinations so far.
But two or three players alone can’t win games.
On good teams, the entire
roster makes contributions
every night, and third and
fourth line “glue” guys are
crucial for any winning
team to have.
In the first four games
of the season, freshman
forward Ryan Badger has
been just that – a bottomsix forward that’s done the
dirty work and brought
energy to the team on a
nightly basis.
“He’s been one of those

constants on and off the
ice, coming into practice
and working his bag off,
and he plays the same way
in the games,” sophomore
forward and linemate Keith
Burchett said. “He’s a 100
percent max effort guy all
the time.”
At 21 years old, Badger
is older than the typical
freshman, even by college hockey standards.
He played a few years of
junior hockey after high
school, as most players do,
but his road to UMass has
been a long and winding
one.
“I went through the
junior process. I was actually committed to Maine
at first,” Badger said
after practice on Monday.
“I ended up de-committing and talking to a few
schools in the area, and
when I finally talked to
coach (Ryan) Miller, coach
Micheletto
and
coach
(Joey) Gasparini, they had
a lot of positive feedback,
and said I could earn an
opportunity here and that’s
what I’m all about. I really
liked what they had to say.”
Micheletto explained the
recruiting process from his
point of view.
“I certainly knew about
Ryan during his ascension as a young player…

“He’s been one of those constants on and off
the ice, coming into practice and working his
bag off.”
Keith Burchett,
UMass forward
but once he committed to
Maine, you kind of lose
track of those guys,” he
said. “When he became
available, it was a guy we
were interested in right
away … we were fortunate
that it worked out both
from our part as well as his
that he wound up here.”
Micheletto also praised
his work ethic and called
Badger a “student of the
game.”
Most expected Badger to
be a depth player for the
Minutemen, but he’s seen
playing time right away,
appearing in all four games
and scoring one goal.
Monday, he was asked if
he expected to find himself
in the lineup so early and
often.
“No,” Badger said, “but
I’m glad that I am and
really happy that it’s happened. I just have to keep
working hard.”
According
to
both
Badger and Micheletto, the
opportunity to earn playing time right away was
a major factor in bring-

ing the Hainesport, New
Jersey native to Amherst.
This weekend, Badger
will travel back to New
Jersey as the Minutemen
will play in the Capital City
Classic in Trenton, which
is only 30 to 40 minutes
away from Badger’s hometown. His parents will be
in attendance, and he said
he’s been flooded with text
messages from friends in
the area looking for tickets.
“Playing close to home
will be an incredible feeling,” Badger said. “Playing
in front of friends and family is always a good thing,
and hopefully I can just
play a normal game and
play strong.”
UMass will open the
tournament with a Friday
afternoon matchup against
Maine at 4:30 p.m., and
will face either Yale or
Princeton on Saturday.
Ross Gienieczko can be reached at
rgieniec@umass.edu and followed on
Twitter @RossGien.

The
Massachusetts
field hockey team has
nothing to lose and everything to gain Wednesday
as it faces off against No.
2 Connecticut on the road.
UConn (17-0, 4-0 Big
East) has not lost a game
this season – only three of
those games were decided
by one-goal – and provides
UMass with a challenge
that will benefit its postseason aspirations.
The
Huskies
have
played several of the
same teams that the
Minutewomen (8-8, 4-3
Atlantic 10 Conference)
competed
against
in
their
non-conference
schedule, including New
Hampshire, Northeastern,
Boston College, Boston
University and Stanford.
UConn has beaten all of
these teams, while UMass
had victories against the
Terriers and the Huskies,
both of which ended in a
2-1 win.
UConn has an explosive offensive unit, which
over the last nine games
has averaged 6.33 goals
per game, just a tad higher than its 6.12 goals-pergame total this season.
Forward Charlotte Veitner
is the Huskies biggest
challenge for the UMass
defense as she leads the
Big East in points (77),
goals (30) and assists (17).
To put those statistics
into context, the next
highest scorer in the Big
East is teammate Roisin
Upton with 34 points.
UMass
coach
Carla
Tagliente recognizes the
pressure that Veitner,
along with Upton, Anna
Middendorf and Casey
Umstead, will put upon

the Minutewomen defense
and has changed her
defensive strategy to contain UConn’s offensive
stars.
“We are changing a
few things, making a few
adjustments, but I think
the biggest thing with
them is that they just are
able to execute well in the
circle. They have scored
a lot of goals and have
talented players that can
finish,” Tagliente said.
UMass goalkeeper Sam
Carlino has not received
much action in goal
over the past few games
as she has only allowed
four goals in the last four
games.
Tagliente believes that
Carlino is ready for the
task of slowing down
UConn and recognizes
that penalty corners will
make or break the game.
“Sam obviously needs
to step up big and make
some savable saves. She’s
usually good to step up in
big games like this … the
biggest thing we need to
do is limit penalty corners
because they are very
good at those,” Tagliente
said.
Playing against one of
the top undefeated teams
in the nation can induce
numerous emotions, but
for Tagliente and the
Minutewomen, they have
said they are not intimidated or worried about
the contest. Instead, they
are more focused on how
their fate in the conference turns out.
“The team is pretty
excited to play them, not
to overlook them, but
they are pretty focused on
what they need to do in
conference play. This is a
bonus, a non-conference
game, where there is no
pressure,” Tagliente said.
Tagliente added: “All the
see

UMass fears Megan Burke out for year with knee injury
Junior tied for team
lead in points, goals
By toM MulheRin
Collegian Staff

The chances of the
Massachusetts women’s soccer team making the Atlantic
10 Conference tournament
took a massive hit over the
past several days, as the ailing
squad failed to register more
than one point in the standings in its last two conference
matchups.
The Minutewomen (6-6-4,
3-3-2 A-10) sit on the outside of
the playoff picture, as they are
currently ninth place, while
only the top eight teams make

the postseason. If the season
were to end before Thursday’s
upcoming game against Saint
Joseph’s, UMass would fall
short of extending its season.
With only two more games
left on the schedule, UMass
is stuck in a spot where it
needs not only to win at least
one of those games, but is
also depending on some other
teams ahead of them to lose.
To make matters worse for
coach Ed Matz’s group, the
weekend also saw one of the
Minutewomen’s key starters
suffer an injury.
Within the first six minutes of a 1-0 loss to Duquesne
last Thursday, UMass forward
Megan Burke left the game
with a serious knee injury.

While the exact details of the
ailment are still unclear, Matz
isn’t confident that she will
return by the end of the season, and has already ruled her
out for the final two games of
the regular schedule.
“She went down awkwardly on her knee and her knee
buckled,” he said. “We don’t
know the results yet because
she hasn’t gotten an MRI, but
it’s a significant knee injury.”
Burke had started all 15
games leading up to her injury against Duquesne, which
includes four contests where
she played the entirety of
the match. Her three goals
and two assists on the year
make her the team’s leading
scorer, and she is one of the

Minutewomen’s most valuable pieces on offense.
Needless to say, a player
of her caliber will be missed
while UMass battles for a spot
in the A-10 Tournament.
“It’s never great when you
lose a player like her,” Matz
said. “Not only is she our
leading goal-scorer, but she
does so much else for us. It’s
a tough thing that we’re going
to have to try to find a way to
overcome.”
With the potential for
Burke to miss the rest of
JUDITH GIBSON-OKUNIEFF/COLLEGIAN
her junior campaign, the
Minutewomen are now in a Megan Burke advances the ball in a 4-2 win over URI Oct. 18.
situation where they will need
to make up for the loss of a key one, as UMass went through senior forward Jackie Bruno.
offensive figure. History says a similar predicament earlier
that the task won’t be an easy in the year with the loss of see BURKE on page 7